Theoretical Perspectives -- The Right of Self-Determination in International Law / Gudmundur Alfredsson -- Nations, Territorial Minorities, Democratic Theory and National Self-Determination / Ephraim Nimni -- The Multiple Paths to Territorial Autonomy: Examples and Conceptual Underpinnings / Sia Spiliopoulou Akermark -- Distribution of Legislative Powers in a Sub-state Context - a Comparison of Double Enumerations in Federal and Autonomy Settings / Markku Suksi -- Autonomous Communities and Environmental Law: The Basque Case / Daniele Conversi and Xabier Ezeizabarrena -- European and Middle Eastern Perspectives -- Territorial Autonomy and Minority Self-Government in Spain: Catalonia and the Basque Country / Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez -- Territorial and Cultural Self-Governance in Italy: Strengths and Challenges of South Tyrol's Autonomy / Andrea Carla and Sergiu Constantin -- Self-Determination, Federalism and Autonomy in the Middle East / Thomas Schmidinger -- Democratic Confederalism in Syria: The Nation-State, the Kurds, and International Law / Thomas James Phillips -- Legal Background of Autonomy Arrangements in Turkey from Historical Perspectives / Olgun Akbulut -- Unpacking the 'Democratic Confederalism' and 'Democratic Autonomy': Proposals of Turkey's Kurdish Movement / Cengiz Gunes.

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